>I think we've all fantasized about disappearing, going off the grid and starting anew at least once.

Almost every time I'm on the highway, I think about what would happen if I just ignored my exit and kept going.

There's a certain appeal in the idea of shedding all of one's personal possessions save for the bare essentials and just driving away. It's easy to feel trapped by the stuff you own and the relationships you form with other people. Modern life doesn't really give you many opportunities to reinvent yourself.

Can relate, tho tbh reading that I expected something like the fixer from breaking bad that gets you new IDs and everything, all this people do is take off and they can do that because japan is the only country I know that respects privacy so much.

It'd be nice to have a service that you pay to actively remove all traces of you from the internet because people would still discuss your disappearance online. Sounds like the people who help them evaporate in this article just help them enter System D unnoticeably. Something you could probably do on your own.